My Beloved Bodyguard
The movie tells the story of Ding, a retired elite bodyguard who lives alone in his hometown near the Russian border, who suffers from early dementia finds a new friend in a young girl. When her life is threatened by her father's connection with a local crime lord, Ding must call upon his long forgotten skills to save her.
15 February 1950, Saigon, Vietnam [now Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam]
9 September 2003
4 October 1979, Israel
26 July 1957, Hong Kong
17 October 1950, Beijing, China
7 January 1952, Hong Kong, British Crown Colony
1944, Taishan, Guangdong Province, China
18 March 1968, Beijing, China
7 October 1978, Shanghai, China
24 March 1982, Taipei, Taiwan
2 September 1950, Hong Kong, China
27 September 1961, Tai Po, Hong Kong
13 November 1980, Harbin, China
February 15, 2017
This is a classic Hong Kong marriage of weepy melodrama and brutal, bone-crunching action, and there's a touching sweetness and tragedy to the story of the quiet, reclusive old man, a career soldier now abandoned by family and by his very mind.
April 08, 2016
As an actor, Hung has an affable and stoic presence and he deserves a better movie and not just one in which he wins the fights.
April 08, 2016
Hong Kong action-comedy auteur Sammo Hung has instead relinquished the controls of his first directorial effort in nearly two decades to a screenplay drenched with cliched mobsters, maudlin melodrama and a plot with red herrings aplenty.
September 11, 2016
This clunky hour and a half is overloaded with melodrama, poor attempts at comedy, and lackluster fight scenes that would get the Nicolas Cage stamp of approval. The Bodyguard is majorly disappointing and Sammo Hung should be ashamed of himself.
April 08, 2016
This kind of premise has proved serviceable many times in the past, and there's no reason it shouldn't work here. But the film is oddly structured, with jarring shifts between sleepy whimsy and hard-edged violence.
April 19, 2016
Martial arts fans anticipating Sammo Hung Kam-bo's first directorial effort in close to 20 years will be left sorely disappointed by The Bodyguard.
